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## How we use IRC at Last.fm

DevFeed: [How we use IRC at Last.fm](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-use-irc-at-last-fm-25821.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm>)

Author: {"image"=\>"rj-headshot.jpg", "greetings"=\>nil}

Published: 2009-01-08T06:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Richard Jones](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/richard-jones.md>)

Topics: [IRC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/irc.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [issue tracker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/issue-tracker.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/channel.md>), [commands](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/commands.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [irc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/irc.md>), [issue-tracker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/issue-tracker.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [lastfm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lastfm.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>)

### AI overview

This article explains how Last.fm uses IRC for team and company-wide communication, automated monitoring, and developer support. It describes the irccat bot, which forwards network messages to IRC, sends operational events such as commits, alerts, deployments, and test results, and exposes lookup and administrative commands through PHP handlers.

### Source excerpt

Everyone that works at Last.fm is typically connected to our IRC server. We have different channels per team, as well as a company-wide channel, and a few channels dedicated to automated monitoring.